Ice chest or box



(No Model.)

J. A. HILCKBN.

ICE CHEST 0R BOX. l N0- 587819. Patented Aug. 10,1897.

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UNITED 4STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN AUGUST HILOKEN, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

ICE CHEST oR`Box.

SECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 587,819, dated August10, 1897.

Application filed April 23, 1897. Serial No. 633,468. (No model.)

T0 all whom zit may; concer/L:

Be it known that I, JOHN AUGUST HILOKEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice ChestsAV or Boxes,

of which the following is a full and complete specification, such aswill enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to ice-boxes; and the object thereof is toprovide an ice-box of the ordinary form with improved means fordrainage; and with this and other objects in View the invention consistsin the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is acentral vertical section of my improved ice-box, said section beingtaken longitudinally thereof; and Fig. 2, a similar section at rightangles to that of Fig. 1.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts ofmy improvement-are designated by the same numerals of reference in eachof the views, and in the practice of my invention I provide an ice boxor chest 5, which is preferably rectangular in form and in one side ofwhich is hinged the usual door 6, and said box or chest is provided withtransverse cleats or strips 7, which are secured to the inner sides ofthe walls thereof and above which are placed longitudinal cleats orstrips S, which are supported by the cleats or strips '7, adjacent tothe side walls of the box or chest.

Supported by the longitudinal strips or cleats 8 are a plurality oftransverse supports 9, any desired number of which mayv be employed, andmounted on the transverse supports 9 are partition plates or boards 10,which are separated at the center by a longitudinal space 11, and theplates or boards 10 are longitudinally grooved on their upper surfaces,as shown at 12 in Fig. 2, and are provided with a sheet-metal covering13, which conforms to said grooves and the edges of which are bentupwardly, as shown at 14,

so as to form a receptacle, in which the ice is placed.

The longitudinal opening l1, between the plates or boards 10, is coveredbya longitudinal plate 15, composed of metal or other material, and the'metal employed for covering the plates or boards 10v and the metal ofthe plate or board 15, if metal be employed, is such that will notcorrode or be injuriously affected by fluids.

Placed transversely over the corrugated surface ofthe plates or boards10 and over the plate or board 15 are trays or supports consisting oftransverse strips 17 and longitudinal strips 18, and in practice the iceis placed upon these trays or supports.

At one end of the plates or boards 10 is a transverse groove or trough19, and communicating therewith is a drainage-pipe 20, and the plates orboards 10 are downwardly inclined in `the direction of the groove ortrough 19, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and when the ice is placed on thetrays or supports, composed of the transverse strips 17 and longitudinalstrips 18, the water therefrom will pass downwardly into thelongitudinal grooves in the upper surface of the plates or boards 10 andwill flow into the groove or trough 19 and be carried away by the pipe20.

There are narrow air-spaces beneath the plate or board 15 at each sidethereof, as shown at 21, and the airis free to pass from the upperchamber 22 of the ice box or chest to the lower portion thereof and fromsaid lower portion to the upper portion.

It will be observed that the plates or boards 10 and the parts connectedtherewith, including the metal covering of said plates or boards,constitute a partition by means of which the ice chest or box isdividedV into an upper and lower compartment, and by means of myimprovement the icebox or chest may be kept perfectly clean at all timesand the water y IOO zlailn as new and desire to secure by LettersPatentl. An ice box or chest of the usual form, provided with partitionplates or boards, which are supported therein, and which are downwardlyinclined from one end to the other, said plates or boards being providedwith longitudinal grooves in the upper surface thereof, and beingseparated by a longitudinal space, which is provided with acovering-plate, and ice trays or supports placed over said plates orboards and said coveringplate, and a transverse groove or trough at oneend of said plates or boards with which said longitudinal grooves insaid plates or boards communicate, and a pipe which communicates-withsaid transverse groove or.

trough, substantially as shown and described.

2. An ice box or chest, of the usual form, provided with partitionplates or boards which are supported therein, and which are downwardlyinclined from one end to the other, said plates or boards being providedwith longitudinal grooves in the upper surface thereof, and beingseparated by a longitudinal space, which is provided with acovering-plate, and ice trays or supports placed the upper surfacethereof, and which also conforms to said transverse groove or trough,substantially as shown and described.

3. An ice box or chest of the usual form, provided with partition platesor boards which are supported therein, and which are downwardly inclinedfrom one end to the other, said plates or boards being provided withlongitudinal grooves in the upper surface thereof, and being separatedbya longitudinal space which is provided with a covering-plate, and icetrays or supports placed over said plates or boards and saidcoveringplate, and a transverse groove or( trough at one end of saidplates or boards with which said longitudinal grooves in said plates orboards communicate, and a pipe which communicates with said transversegroove or trough, said partition plates or boards being provided with ametal covering which conforms to said longitudinal grooves formed in theupper surface thereof, and which also conforms to the bottom of saidtransverse groove or trough and the sides of which are carried upwardlyadjacent to the inner Walls of the box or chest,substantially anddescribed. V

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 22d day of April,1897.

JOHN AUGUST HILCKEN.

Vitnesses:

O. GERST, l A. C. VAN BLARCOM.

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